Tony's car is pretty much dead. Here we go again.

It lives.

Still here. Keep thinking things are going to settle down ad that I willl have more time to post. Hasn't been the case. Between wedding dress shopping in Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut, Easter Dinner, an alternate work schedule, and extra after school odd jobs...... anytime I have in the evenings is usually spent staring at the computer screen in a half vegetative state.

We ran out of wood about 2 or 3 weeks ago and have been using our propane heat which isn't as effective and certainly isn't as economical. It's not warming up fast enough here, and we still have over 2 feet of snow on the ground.

I am back to work at my regular school. We got a new student today who is going to be a handful and we just narrowly avoided a major altercation today. I came home with a throbbing headache and have been pretty useless around the house since then.

I did find 'the dress' and will be ordering it later on this week. Save the date cards also arrived so I need to get busy addressing them.

Promise to update more soon with pictures.

LAZY

Sorry for no interesting posts as of late. I am exhausted and feeling just plain run down. This week are the MEAs at school (standardized testing); our kids react very poorly to testing.
The weather warmed up over the weekend and things are slowly beginning to melt around here. Now we just have to hope that all of this snow melt doesn't flood us out. With the slight warming of the weather comes the itch to start some seeds. I did manage to get some birdhouse gourds started and hope to plant some onion seeds soon as well. Indoors of course.
I am taking Friday off as a personal day and will be heading down to my parents in Connecticut to do some more wedding dress shopping. I can't tell you how badly I just want to be done dress shopping. All of this wedding planning stuff is so stressful.
Anyways I will leave you with a few random pictures and will do my best to be more exciting soon.
Oh, ya. Two of our hens have starting laying again. Hopefully soon we won't have to buy eggs at the store anymore. We did find this neat brand of eggs called Born Free. They have their dates laser etched onto their shells! It's so cool !


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We've Got Fleas!

Snow Fleas that is. These are not the fleas that bite animals and or people. In fact these are harmless decomposers that like cold, wet environments; like snow. They eat mold, fungus and decaying leaves. They also seem to travel in droves and stay for looooong visits. They have probably been around our property for the last 2 months.
Harmless or not they gross me out.

The weight of it all

Yes, it is snowing. We are supposed to get another foot today. That should push this winter's total accumulations to 11' for us. It is insane. The state is running out of salt for the roads and Portland is talking about buying some million dollar snow melting machine. There is just nowhere to put this much snow.

Our latest snow damage (after the collapse of the chicken run and the snow damn/leaks on the house) is a collapsed roof off the back of the garage. Luckily it is not the garage roof, just a small storage area with open sides. I was nervous because the oil tank to the garage is covered by that roof, but if fell just right, sparing the oil tank by mere inches. We were also lucky that there was no major damage to the attachement points on the garage.

I shoveled the chicken coops roof again, for fearing of that collapsing on our girls. The coop is completely buried by the snow, so much so that it is a struggle for us to open the side door to give them food and water. I guess on the plus side of it being buried, it is staying a little warmer on the interior for them.

I think by the end of the day today, the majority of the windows in the house will be completely blocked by the snow. How depressing.

Howdy

Just a quick note to say I am still here. I have been super busy with work, plus after school work (cleaning houses), and trying to figure out some wedding stuff. I promise I will post soon. We are supposed to get yet another storm on Saturday, so that should be a good day to catch up.

Begins with an S, ends with a W

Few more pictured for you. These aren't the pretty side of the snow. These are the pictures of the mess we are constantly trying to dig out of. The temps have been pretty brutal, wind chills pushing -20.
T and I have been keeping busy working in the house today. We are still doing stuff to the bathroom and trying to get the house cleaned up for Mom and my sisters visit this week. Thank God for school vacation. Will post more later, it's 8:45 and we are just now having dinner.

Buried

This is getting ridiculous. The chicken run caved in under the weight of the snow. We can't get to the small door of the coop to close it now and it's in the single digits with negative temperatures due to windchill. The side door to the coop won't close all the way either because the snow is packed in and jamming it open.



We have some pretty major ice damns going on in two different spots of the roof.


The lower halves of the windows are blacked out by the snow.

Our driveway is still a mess, the walk ways are too narrow and another storm is coming tomorrrow night.

A few more random wedding ideas

Grey Days

I am still here. Just haven't really felt like posting. It has been snowing for days now and is supposed to continue on and off throughout the weekend. I am so sick of winter. I have been thinking about my gardens and planning what seeds to order. I still have so long to wait before I can do anything though.
We have had to pick up our mail at the post office for the last 3 weeks because we are unable to dig out our mailbox. The driveway is a mess, and continues getting narrower and narrower with every storm. The biggest problem is finding places to put all of the snow. All of the snowbanks are shoulder level or higher for me so soon it will be impossible for me to lift the shovel high enough. The worst part of these storms is that they are alternating between snow sleet and ice. This makes it so heavy. Last week it was impossible to clear the snow because there was a thick crust of ice across the surface.


I did my best to shovel off some of the roof to the chicken coop today. You can see it sagging from the inside and seeing as the chickens won't venture out in the snow, I am afraid the roof will collapse on them.


I am sick of posting boring snow pictures. Hopefully me posts will be a little more exciting next time.